By A Correspondent
The Kyoorius Advertising & Digital Awards have been renamed – Kyoorius Creative Awards – with the addition of Media Awards this year. The Kyoorius Creative Awards will have three juries, Advertising, Media and Digital, in 2016.
The Kyoorius Creative Awards, held in association with D&AD, was open for entries from Tuesday 15th March 2016. Kyoorius has called for entries from across India across a total of 15 categories and 135 sub-categories.
The awards can be entered by any company or individual and is not restricted to agencies. Kyoorius will promote the awards across corporate, production houses and agencies – advertising, media, event, digital, etc
The entries will close on 12th April 2016. Submission of physical entries for the awards will then remain open for a week.
Kyoorius, for the first time ever, introduced the concept of Open Jury – the jury sessions are open to the industry people to watch, learn, check and benefit from the discussions and display of entries. The Jury session will be held from 4th May to 7th May in Mumbai.
Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder & CEO of Kyoorius, commented, “Awards are primarily to inspire and motivate the industry achievers and I am delighted to announce the inclusion of Media Awards and the renaming of the awards to Kyoorius Creative Awards. I am also happy with the response that we have always got for having a transparent open jury process and we shall continue to do so. I personally feel that many agencies have done brilliant work in the last year and hence I am expecting a lot more entries this year including participation of more agencies.â€
The Kyoorius Creative Awards show will be held on Friday June 3 2016 at The Dome, NSCI in Mumbai. The awards show will be attended by well over 1500 professionals including CEO’s, Marketing Directors, Brand Managers, Creative and Media gurus, etc.
The Kyoorius Creative Awards are presented by Colors, powered by Hindustan Times and Rishtey and other main partners include Happy Finish, Kinetic.
Creative Awards
Call for Entries open: 15th March 2016
Call for Entries close: 12th April 2016
Jury session: 4th – 7th May 2016
Awards Night: 3rd June 2016
For more information log on to awards.kyoorius.com.
For further information, Kindly contact:
Parmpreet Kaur | parmpreet@communicateindia.com| +91 9870390819
Priyanka Kulkarni | priyanka@communicateindia.com| +91 9819393916


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